Sorg (Bangert)
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Sorg (Bangert)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Nikolaus Sorg, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard the galliot named Der Junge Mattias under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Selander.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Bangert on 1 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 11.
They 1767 census records that Nikolaus Sorg came from the German village of Mönstadt in the Nassau-Usingen region.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 108.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3402.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai